Temptation Quote by C.S. Lewis

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside…

— Anonymous

“We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs,…

— Dion Fortune

“Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented…

— Anonymous

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

— Horace Mann

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways…

— John Owen

“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…

— Anonymous

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil,…

— Oswald Chambers

“God will not allow us to be overwhelmed by temptation, but with it He will provide a way of escape so that we will…

— Rebecca Wells

Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we…

— Joan D. Chittister

Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom.

— Rick Warren

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do…

— F.B. Meyer